Seriously? (* citations needed.)

How can anyone provide a citation if the person has been systematically erased from history? ;)

So... was my joke completely not clear or are state actors not liking me? Not sure which it is...

That's a pretty comical and obvious reach as a statement. Did they (the West) erase Woody Allen's films and I missed it? I can't watch Roman Polanski's films? I can't listen to Michael Jackson's music? Amazon won't rent me films with Kevin Spacey in them (and authorities are going house to house confiscating the copies of his films)? Matt Lauer has been permanently erased from all YouTube videos?

No.

This is an extraordinary bit of whataboutism, and requires extraordinary evidence. Please justify it with real, verifiable examples.

Why does every article about the Chinese government doing terrible things have someone saying 'the west is just as bad'? It not only is pure whataboutism it usually isn't even remotely true.

Because hacker news is visible and central enough to be of interest to all state actors.